Order Only: I want to volunteer
Jan. 11th, 2014 11:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_terryI stayed up all night thinking about this.
I'd like to volunteer to come to Hogwarts. If I pose in my Animagus form as, say, a pet of a staff member, I could teach the transformation to anyone willing to learn it. Pansy, I understand you're hoping you won't get picked, and Draco and Hydra, you're depending on occlumency. But if Ron and Hermione want to learn, I could work with them personally. It really helped me, when I was learning, to speak to Sirius. I think I could help short-cut the time you'd have to spend figuring it out. Maybe even dramatically.
What's more, in my form, maybe I could serve as an additional set of eyes and ears looking out for the four of you, hearing what the other candidates say. Nobody cares in the least what they say in front of a dog.
If one of the staff would agree to pose as my 'master,' I promise I won't let anyone see me in human form except someone in the Order, and we're sure that we're private. There isn't any rule at Hogwarts that says a staff member can't have a friendly, very well-trained dog, is there? Maybe the caretaker's dog might be best; that way I'd have lots of chances to move around the school freely. I won't be any bother; all I need is a corner with a blanket, and I won't trouble your privacy. I know I was a dog at Hogwarts for close to a week five years ago. But if, say, after I transformed, someone with a wand did a simple transfiguration spell over me to turn my fur all black, I bet no one would recognize me.
I come of age this week, and I've really thought this through. My friends at Hogwarts helped me when I was nothing. They gave me magic, and helped me escape from Carrow. This is a way I can pay them back.
Please let me do this.
I'd like to volunteer to come to Hogwarts. If I pose in my Animagus form as, say, a pet of a staff member, I could teach the transformation to anyone willing to learn it. Pansy, I understand you're hoping you won't get picked, and Draco and Hydra, you're depending on occlumency. But if Ron and Hermione want to learn, I could work with them personally. It really helped me, when I was learning, to speak to Sirius. I think I could help short-cut the time you'd have to spend figuring it out. Maybe even dramatically.
What's more, in my form, maybe I could serve as an additional set of eyes and ears looking out for the four of you, hearing what the other candidates say. Nobody cares in the least what they say in front of a dog.
If one of the staff would agree to pose as my 'master,' I promise I won't let anyone see me in human form except someone in the Order, and we're sure that we're private. There isn't any rule at Hogwarts that says a staff member can't have a friendly, very well-trained dog, is there? Maybe the caretaker's dog might be best; that way I'd have lots of chances to move around the school freely. I won't be any bother; all I need is a corner with a blanket, and I won't trouble your privacy. I know I was a dog at Hogwarts for close to a week five years ago. But if, say, after I transformed, someone with a wand did a simple transfiguration spell over me to turn my fur all black, I bet no one would recognize me.
I come of age this week, and I've really thought this through. My friends at Hogwarts helped me when I was nothing. They gave me magic, and helped me escape from Carrow. This is a way I can pay them back.
Please let me do this.
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Date: 2014-01-11 11:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-12 01:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2014-01-12 04:01 am (UTC)I'm going to talk with Mrs Longbottom tomorrow night, and I think she wants to ask the staff members at Hogwarts what they think. I hadn't thought of staying with you, but it's a very good idea, too.
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Date: 2014-01-12 02:40 pm (UTC)When I was transformed into a dog by the git, during the first year, Professor McGonagall could tell at a glance that I was really human and changed me back. Can only someone who's worked with Transfiguration for years and years do that? I wonder if the Animagus transformation is different and no one can tell? Because there's Professor Dolohov. He wasn't at Hogwarts when I was.
If he can spot me as a transfigured human...yeah. That would be bad.
I don't suppose you can ask him. Especially if you show up with a new pet a week later. The coincidence might make him wonder.
Maybe Professor Dumbledore can tell us the answer to that.
In any case, if we do this, I should probably stay far away from Professor Dolohov. And Professor Rabastan, too. Just in case.